Just when you get too comfortable...

Its been almost 2 years since my last post (1 year, 10 months). I really don't know where to begin or how to start. First there was a dropping off of meetings, no sponsor, flirting with gambling, dancers and a bad boy life style that needed money. Then playing with and doing business with a shadier side of society. All under our noses because we dared not think it would happen and when we pulled the plug on support, he showed us he could survive on his own doing all the things we warned him about. We sat and waited for the phone call we knew was inevitable. And it came from a distant place and he was in trouble with the law and needed help. We said we would help only if he sought help and went into treatment, and an angel arrived and he was accepted into treatment at Beit T'Shuvah 6 months ago. He is now out and working at a sober living, going to meetings and planning for his future. He still has to settle up with society for what he was caught doing, but he is facing that with resolve, for this too shall pass.

Its prophetic that Cody's first tattoo was in Hebrew and it said, "this too shall pass". His second tattoo was a calligraphic "Choices" when read one way and "Destiny" when read in the oppsite direction. How fitting for all that has transpired.

Do you want to improve the world?
I don't think it can be done.

The world is sacred.
It can't be improved.
If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it.

There is a time for being ahead,
a time for being behind;
a time for being in motion,
a time for being at rest;
a time for being vigorous,
a time for being exhausted;
a time for being safe,
a time for being in danger.

The Master sees things as they are,
without trying to control them.
She lets them go their own way,
and resides at the center of the circle